About three years ago, I got serious about my kitchen tools. I’m not a professional chef, but I spend enough time in the kitchen cooking that I want to be intentional about what I’m using. My focus is ...
No knife stays sharp forever. At some point, after squishing tomatoes and straining your wrist to slice steak, you must learn how to sharpen kitchen knives to keep them gliding through foods like ...
Editor’s Note: July 16, 2026: For our most recent update, we added the new Benchmade Bugout Vapyr as our top recommendation for an ultralight pocket knife. (Earlier this year we included the Benchmade ...
The only knife you really need is shaped like a torpedo. It is 100 percent stainless steel, unspoiled by even a particle of plastic, but still made for just about any kitchen, anywhere. After ...
Knives. The basic concept behind them—slicing, dicing—hasn’t really changed much since the caveman or whichever hominid invented the idea of putting something sharp on a stick. But the technology sure ...
While the blade of a given knife is obviously the most important part — it’s the part that does the cutting, after all — the handle is only slightly less important, as you’re not going to do much ...
My top picks are from King, Zwilling, and Amazon Basics.